Arizona Chickens

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Whoa! Checked that one out, looks like they need an English speaking proofreader! Especially since it has a 9 egg capacity, that they describe as "hordes"! LOL.
Keep us posted on how it works for you. I am in the market for a 'bator, but haven't decided on which model yet.

Raising hand madly. I proofread! I proofread!

 

[cyborg]

Raising hand madly. I proofread! I proofread!

Yeah, when I first got out of the Nav, I took a job as a proofreader at Phoenix Auto Trader, about 1978 or so. (They badly needed one!) It was pretty cool being a single guy in an office full of single women. I ended up marrying one of the typesetters.

P.S. what am I doing today? Still moving into the new house. I can't believe how much junk I've accumulated!

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

Thank you for all the recommendations about my new project. Decided to go with blue eggs. Searched around and got 9 Crested Cream Legbar hatching eggs from a breeder in Goodyear, AZ. Set them in the small incubator Friday for a 25th of September hatch date. Really like this new incubator. Totally automated, digital controls, turns the eggs and holds temp to 1/10 of a degree C. Only holds 9 chicken eggs though. Even has a hole on top so can add water every other day without opening. Wife got it here for my anniversary.

CCL will be in my next incubator full of eggs. I already ordered from the lady in Goodyear.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

If they are broody they usually will be protective of the stash, puff up and scream at you when you try to get near the eggs. Oh and consistently on the nest.

I would pull those wooden eggs out from under the broody.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

So what are you doing today? I'm working on refinishing my dining room chairs. I've discovered Annie Sloan's chalk paint and have also tried making my own. For small projects, mixing regular eggshell (heh heh) paint with powdered calcium carbonate works very well. The Annie Sloan paint goes a lot farther and has better coverage, even though it's more expensive. It was also worth it to buy her paint brush. Really good quality real bristles that hold a lot of paint, don't fall off in the paint, and don't leave tracks. I'm doing three layers of paint:

1. bright red, which didn't cover very well
2. cream
3. graphite

I'm doing two chairs first because I ran out of red paint: At first I was just going to put the cream on spots I wanted it to show through, but the wood was so thirsty I feel that it need and entire coat to add the texture and patina I wanted. I'm painting the one on the right completely with cream. It still needs another coat. Then I will put the graphite (black) on. I might use the dark wax in between layers ... I'm not sure. It's a very organic process. I'm looking for a side table to do for my brother for Xmas. I want to modge podge some lotteria cards on to the top of it, or maybe just transfer some images onto it. Does anyone have any old furniture s/he wants to get rid of.

I would love to see the finished products. I have a lovely collection of mis matched early garage sale pieces that I would like to pretty up.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

Yeah, when I first got out of the Nav, I took a job as a proofreader at Phoenix Auto Trader, about 1978 or so. (They badly needed one!) It was pretty cool being a single guy in an office full of single women. I ended up marrying one of the typesetters.

P.S. what am I doing today? Still moving into the new house. I can't believe how much junk I've accumulated!

It is so easy to collect stuff and so hard to get rid of it.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

Pulled my little Black Tailed Japanese Bantam hen out of the regular population and up her in a small coop by herself late last night. Put fresh bedding in and then the eggs you have me. She was laying on them this morning so looks to be successful. Should I take the wooden eggs out? There's like 5 wooden and 5 real under her now.

Thank you very much for the eggs again. Hopefully I'll have success getting some babies.

On another note I found another hen laying on about 11 hidden eggs in the coop this morning. How do you know when a hen is broody and not just laying on them temporarily?

Take the wooden eggs out. They might mess with the heat transfer to the eggs.

 

[Nuclear Chickens]

CCL will be in my next incubator full of eggs. I already ordered from the lady in Goodyear.

Pam at Padilla's Peeps ( the breeder in Goodyear) seams like a real nice lady. She was very flexible about pickup time for the eggs and was really good about answering my question. A real Pro.

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

Pam at Padilla's Peeps ( the breeder in Goodyear) seams like a real nice lady. She was very flexible about pickup time for the eggs and was really good about answering my question. A real Pro.

Great! I can't wait to meet her. So far I have met some "interesting" people in the chicken world. But really it's not much different from other animal buying and selling circles. You have hobbyists and pros. I love the pros at what they do.

 

[a little chiken]

Wow, excellent results for shipped eggs!! Congrats!

Do the muscovies lay all year? I'm assuming if I had a drake he would have to be separate from my chickens. Do they roost like chickens? You all are enabling me to get ducks...

That's what I need, yeah, more critters.

I have chikens, all my ducks and my geese free ranging together. The ducks do not roost but they like a little house to go into. they are really really fast growers and so easy going. My muscovies never bother my chickens at all. I am not sure if they lay eggs all year but I will find out.

Cruella deVille, Romeo's significant other

Orps

My NN roo, Romeo my favorite, he's very curious and sweet

This is the little leghorn cockerel in need of a good home

Hugo my Golden Marans roo with 3 of his girls

I am a HUGE NN freak . They are so sweet. I want a barred NN.

Pulled my little Black Tailed Japanese Bantam hen out of the regular population and up her in a small coop by herself late last night. Put fresh bedding in and then the eggs you have me. She was laying on them this morning so looks to be successful. Should I take the wooden eggs out? There's like 5 wooden and 5 real under her now.

Thank you very much for the eggs again. Hopefully I'll have success getting some babies.

On another note I found another hen laying on about 11 hidden eggs in the coop this morning. How do you know when a hen is broody and not just laying on them temporarily?

I will cross my fingers for you.

Yeah, when I first got out of the Nav, I took a job as a proofreader at Phoenix Auto Trader, about 1978 or so. (They badly needed one!) It was pretty cool being a single guy in an office full of single women. I ended up marrying one of the typesetters.

P.S. what am I doing today? Still moving into the new house. I can't believe how much junk I've accumulated!

did you still want those tree seeds with those purple blooms?